GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE Does Nothing

[Volkan YAZICI]

Hi,

[I know this question has been raised many times before, but I couldn't
find an appropriate thread fits to my situation. If you know one, don't
hesistate to bash me. BTW, gnu.emacs.gnus didn't return any replies.]

Despite below configurations, calling GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE on an article
from "18 Oct 2007" returns "Expiry recovered 0 NOV entries, deleted 0
files, and freed 0.000000 B." and obviously no expiration occurs. Any
ideas what I might be missing?

  (defun custom-nnmail-expiry-wait (group)
    (cond ((string-match "mail" (gnus-group-topic group)) 90)
          (t 30)))

  (setq
   gnus-agent-expire-all nil
   gnus-agent-expire-days 7
   gnus-agent-expire-unagentized-dirs t
   nnmail-expiry-wait 7
   message-expires 7
   nnmail-expiry-wait-function 'custom-nnmail-expiry-wait
   gnus-auto-expirable-newsgroups ".*")

BTW, among GNUS-AGENT-EXPIRE-DAYS, NNMAIL-EXPIRY-WAIT, MESSAGE-EXPIRES
and NNMAIL-EXPIRY-WAIT-FUNCTION, how gnus decides which one to use?


Regards.

P.S. Using GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) of 2008-07-19
     compiled against latest CVS tip.